Month: April 2019

The Experiment of the Tropics by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil / Gaudy Boy Imprint / 2018 / 72 pages. It is difficult to unpack the impact of imperial power from culture. Some facts are historical: Asian cities like Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore were once occupied by foreign powers. However, to assume that the word “once” signifies…

These poems were co-created with ice along the Kagawong River. A sheet of ice had broken off the bank and dropped into the river, leaving an exposed, flat ice ridge. I stood on the separated ice shelf below, shifting with the moving river, and penned the words with water-based ink. The ice did its thing.…

You remember each new encounter, trying unsuccessfully to hold back the salivating. How your mouth shaped around every new one in an attempt to make itself one with it, tongue exploring crevices and ridges, curves and surfaces. The tints and tones, surprising tastes; how fundamentally they are all the same, yet each so unique. Suck,…

I began using collage — scraps torn from magazines, calendars, auction catalogues — as part of a group exhibition featuring ‘Icons’ about 8 years ago, where I discovered my Polish-Ossetian roots came through in the rich colours and composition. Working so intuitively has made the process even quicker as I’ve learned to trust it more,…

It was recently announced that Peter Greenaway’s upcoming art installation would be a fully functioning racetrack with real cars inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The iconic British artist and filmmaker is known for avant-garde works that revisit classical art by resituating it in a contemporary setting. Greenaway’s art is one informed by the…

harbor / credit: d.enckBrown Eyes So the universe is everything, even the anthills even the anthills lit with whispering, longing, elegant brownstones and engine fires and dirty arguments the body you didn’t ask to be a part of burns down alongside the gas stations, the keycard to the motel room, and the strangers you asked…

The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen / UWA Publishing / 2019 / 112 pages / 9781760800215 “My poems are sleeping in these pages / waiting for you to rouse them,” Richard James Allen, Australian author of eleven books of poetry, dancer, and actor warns at the beginning of his latest…

Alien Buddha Press has just published Empty Mirror contributor g emil reutter‘s newest collection of poetry, Stale Bread and Coffee. Published on April 9, it’s 66 pages and is available for purchase here. “The colloquial voice of g emil reutter rises from the valley, circles back through years of close observation with a steady eye.…

Alien Buddha Press has just published Empty Mirror contributor g emil reutter‘s newest collection of poetry, Stale Bread and Coffee. Published on April 9, it’s 66 pages and is available for purchase here. “The colloquial voice of g emil reutter rises from the valley, circles back through years of close observation with a steady eye.…

plumearth #3 / credit: emTranslator’s note: Miss Poetrix (pen name for Gaia Casanova) is a poet and performer from Rome, Italy. Her work is reminiscent of Italian poets such as Patrizia Valduga and American poets such as Anne Sexton. Love and loss are two of the major themes in her recently published collection Transfert (Edizioni…